. Book of the Royal blue . J ■V Book of the Royal Blue. Published Monthly by thePassenger Department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. V, BALTIMORE, DECEMBER, 1901, No. ST. LOUIS. ST. LOUIS was founded February 15,1764, by M. Pierre Laclede Liguest, who, having obtained a charter fromM. DAbbadie, Ciovernor of the Province , for the privilege of exclusivetrade with the savages of the Missouri asfar north as the St. Peters River, startedfrom New ()rleans in the summer of 176Hwith a large company of mechanics, traders,hunters and agriculturists, for the purposeof establishing a
. Book of the Royal blue . J ■V Book of the Royal Blue. Published Monthly by thePassenger Department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. V, BALTIMORE, DECEMBER, 1901, No. ST. LOUIS. ST. LOUIS was founded February 15,1764, by M. Pierre Laclede Liguest, who, having obtained a charter fromM. DAbbadie, Ciovernor of the Province , for the privilege of exclusivetrade with the savages of the Missouri asfar north as the St. Peters River, startedfrom New ()rleans in the summer of 176Hwith a large company of mechanics, traders,hunters and agriculturists, for the purposeof establishing a trading post and colonysomewhere on the west bank of the Missis-sippi River near the mouth of the Missouri. Arriving at St. (Jenevieve after a long,fatiguing trip, in the rough, heavy flat-boats of that period, they found that postcould not aftord sufficient shelter or accom-modation, so they continued up the river toFort de Chartres, on the Illinois side, wherethey found active preparations being madefor the evacuat
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